"This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” Dialogue

The main difference that the movie and the reading had was the reading never spoke of any fire or at least no mention of Victor’s father saving Thomas’s life. For Victor the movie evolved around this knowledge and the fact that his father never saved him. This is what made him feel that he was worth anything. Thomas was looked at by his father as someone special enough to save and yet his own boy wasn’t even worth him staying around for.

I feel that the movie portrayed two boys having had this experience that would ever tie them together and until they had the experience of needing each other, Victor would never be able to work together and understand that Thomas and Victor completed each other like brothers. The reading told another story. The two boys were joined together for no more reason that they lived on an Indian Reservation. One needed what the other had and regardless on how important and gracious Victor was for Thomas giving him the help, their friendship would end after they came back to the Reservation.

Victor was not going to have enough integrity to stand up against his peers and tell them that he likes Thomas and that it wasn’t right to treat another human being the way that they treat him.

I feel after reading the story it seemed more like what really happened and there was no big ending were the main character discovers this big change. The reading is more like true life. People treat people how theirs peers do and many people do not have the courage to change. I feel that the movie portrayed two boys that started into this world with this big devastating fire and how both came out of it with two different views on life. And that just wasn’t reality.